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Spotted in Woking. A Halfords immobile expert! Made me guffaw...

You missed my irony. We should never have fallen for Brexit. Ironically, the very person who pushed for Brexit (but didn't mind sitting as an MEP and collects a pension from that thank you very much, despite being very anti-EU) is now crowing about how he reckons he can fix it...yeah right...

Yes, in this case, the small boats arriving surged after Brexit. If we reverse Brexit, bingo.

Isn't the box the house? ;) Miaow!

I've seen enough installations in my time to know that the more junction boxes you see (other than certain lighting installations, which I'll get back to), the more it points to a DIY or incompetent installation. However, in the 1960s, the junction box method of wiring lighting became a popular...

As far as I can tell, they are bothered about the number of junction boxes and that the circuit may be an undersized radial on a 32A breaker.

IMHO, the OP should get an EICR carried out by a reputable electrician and take things from there. To say is flippant. If the EICR says the property is dangerously wired and a full rewire is prudent, that is what you ought to do, for your safety and that of the people who share your house, at...

And on and off and on and off.... ;) Joking aside, I have a PIR-triggered fan in our bathroom, an in-line S&P 5" fan and it's fine, but it is set to 30 minutes.

Story about that. Before I started training as a spark, I was a student in Fallowfield. After the course finished, the first McDs drive through in the country opened there and some of us decided to regroup and went through on a metal bed on wheels. There were four of us push/ pulling and two...

Well that's what Will, my eldest said! He said, "Dad, there's no way her hubby wasn't trying to bump her off!"

Found it. 1. Cord grip loose and not gripping sheath. 2. Conductors left too long. 3. Nicks and damage to conductor insulation, exposing conductor. 4. Damage to plug, exposing live parts. 5. R.P. 6. Excess copper exposed. 7. Earth disconnected. 8. Wire wrapped round blown fuse, almost...

Thanks for all your great suggestions. I can't risk drilling towards the hall floor void from the dining room as is a lot of pipework under the floor there, including a gas pipe!

According to the Technical fella that worked at Wylex in Wythenshawe, the Standard consumer unit was introduced in 1956. Fitting then that the year I retired, I replaced one from 1956....56 years later!

The box in the picture is on the hall side to show the presence of the cable where it comes up from under the floor from the hall socket. The cable then enters the box and another leaves through the back of the box, through the wall into the socket in the dining room. I'd prefer not to use an...

Except it's a spur...:(

The actual socket the power is coming from is 900mm away.

:ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:

I had a last minute request from Mrs S to put a socket in the dining room. The dining room has a laminate floor, so I had to take a spur from the hall socket then run the cable through the hall wall back to back with the site of the new socket. So, I put a single box in the hall wall where the...

Miss motties marathon reminded me of the reason we went to France... Number one son ran the Paris marathon for Movember. 4.44. That was Sunday. We drove home from Lille on Tuesday. That was a bit of a marathon: 10 hours! He's still feeling the burn today! Says he will never do another one...